Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Norma Bengell

Brazilian actress (1935–2013) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Norma Bengell
Remove ads

Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell (21 February 1935 – 9 October 2013)[1] was a Brazilian film, stage and television actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. She appeared in several episodes of T.H.E. Cat, the first being in 1966 episode “To Kill a Priest”.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...
Remove ads

Early life

Bengell was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2]

Career

Bengell appeared in numerous international productions, including an extended period during the mid-1960s co-starring in Italian productions, in which she was usually cast as the protagonist's romantic interest. She is possibly best known for starring with Alberto Sordi in Alberto Lattuada's Mafioso (1962) and in Sergio Corbucci's The Hellbenders (1967).[3] She had a major role as a prostitute in Anselmo Duarte's Keeper of Promises (1962), a Brazilian drama that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1963 and won the Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival in 1962.[4] Earlier that same year, she caused major controversy after appearing nude in a scene of the Ruy Guerra film Os Cafajestes.[5]

In 1987, she directed her first film, Eternamente Pagu, a biography of Patrícia Galvão.[6] In 1996, she directed an adaptation of José de Alencar's novel The Guarani, also titled The Guarani.[7]

Remove ads

Filmography

Film

More information Year, Title ...

Director

More information Year, Title ...

Television

More information Year, Title ...
Remove ads

Death

Bengell died from lung cancer aged 78 in Rio de Janeiro on 9 October 2013.[31]

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads